He is neither. He is black and white, his mother an immigrant from Jamaica, his father an American of German ancestry.

Jungblut is one of 7 million Americans who said they are of mixed race, a swelling wave of relatively recent homogenization that manifests itself in fusions of physical features – such as the dark brown skin and arched eyes of golf star Tiger Woods, whose father is African-American and mother is Thai – and in the chaotic blend of language, food and music in a Japanese-Italian home in Ridgefield.

The reporter here continues the myth that Hispanics are a separate “race” and not themselves multiracial. Hispanics are just multiracials with political power.